God Still Speaks: Reading the Bible with Astonishment

A new year of Bible reading is upon us. Some, like the five wise virgins who prepared their lamps beforehand, have already sketched out a fresh strategy to read through the whole Bible or to study select portions; others are scrambling at midnight to find new fuel for the faint light of their ambitions. Wherever you find yourself, the intent to structure your Bible reading in the new year is commendable. We Christians are, after all, a people of the Book. But why even make a plan to read? D